World Bestselling Children's Literature Classic - Gulliver's Travels

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Features: Gulliver's Travels is the masterpiece of British writer Jonathan Swift, one of the most widely and enduringly circulated classics in the world, especially known for the stories of Lilliput and Brobdingnag. Swift was the founder of the radical democratic faction in the British Enlightenment, a poet, and the most outstanding political essayist and satirical novelist of 18th-century Britain. He is also one of the greatest satirical writers in the world. In 1985, he was selected by LIFE magazine as one of the best books of all time. He was also included in the 21st edition of the American Guide to Good Reading as one of the 100 great classics. Part of the World Bestselling Children's Literature Classics series, Gulliver's Travels is the masterpiece of Jonathan Swift, the most outstanding political essayist and satirical novelist of 18th-century Britain, and a great satirical novel in the history of world literature. The novel narrates the experiences of Captain Gulliver's travels to Lilliput, Brobdingnag, the Flying Islands, and the Land of the Houyhnhnms in the first person. With magical imagination, exaggeration, allegorical style, and satire, the author critiques the British political system, especially the corruption, incompetence, cruelty, debauchery, greed, and arrogance of the ruling class, delivering a scathing denunciation.